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Ancora port disembarkation of 38 people rescued by MSF's search-and-rescue ship Geo Barents. | Photo: ANSA/US/MSF

MSF's Geo Barents disembarks in Ancona with 38 migrants, 7 medical cases

NGO Doctors Without Borders' search-and-rescue ship Geo Barents disembarked more than three dozen migrants at the northern Italian port of Ancona last week.

Kassem Abo Zeed, 34, from Syria, holds up a photo on his mobile of his missing wife Israa, who was aboard the ship that sank off Pylos in the port of Kalamata, southwest of Athens, Greece, on June 15. | Photo: EPA/YANNIS KOLESIDIS

Greece shipwreck survivors search for loved ones

The morning after a shipwreck south of Greece's Peloponnese peninsula left at least 78 dead, survivors searched desperately for their loved ones at the nearby port of Kalamata.

Survivors of the capsized boat were preparing to be transported to the Greek capital for registration and to make claims for asylum | Photo: John Liakos/AP Photo/picture alliance

Pakistan mourns victims of capsized boat on Greek coast

Hundreds of Pakistanis are believed to have been on the vessel that sank off the coast of Greece earlier this week, but just 12 have been accounted for.

The UK is grappling with an influx of cross-Channel arrivals © Ben Stansall / AFP

UK govt says more than 10,000 migrants have arrived via small boat so far this year

The number of people arriving in the UK in small boats has reached over 10,000 since the start of the year, UK government figures showed Sunday.

Survivors of the capsized boat were preparing to be transported to the Greek capital for registration and to make claims for asylum | Photo: John Liakos / AP Photo / picture alliance

UN says migrant boat capsizing off Greece 'horrific tragedy'

UN agencies called for investigating and holding to account smugglers and human traffickers. Nine Egyptian men were arrested for allegedly trafficking the migrants on the boat into Europe.